Grants
6 November 2013 / 21 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
This is an opportunity to help build a community around digital humanities scholarship at UCSC at a time when practice is emerging on campus.
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News
5 November 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies and University Library will present a celebration of two new books on Jewish Studies–featuring emeritus history professor Peter Kenez; professor of English and comparative literature […]
18 October 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
An enthusiastic audience of 250 community members gathered at the “Top of the Ritt” in downtown Santa Cruz last night to celebrate UCSC’s very first evening of “Ed Talks”—three TED-style talks by acclaimed UC Santa Cruz faculty.
14 October 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
No one disputes the fact that the job market for tenure-track positions in the humanities and humanistic social sciences is extremely competitive these days and only a select few of […]
3 October 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Are stories about our ambivalent love affairs with our machines stories of imprisonment or empowerment? Are we in charge of our avatars, personal profiles and robots, or have they actually mastered us?
27 September 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has announced a major new gift to support the campus’s Jewish Studies Program. The Helen Diller Family will contribute $500,000 toward the establishment of a new Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies.
24 September 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The $100,000 will support collaborative projects between UC faculty and public policy experts and cultural institutions.
16 September 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC will host an exhibit commemorating the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus.
30 August 2013 / 17 April 2020 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC associate professor of history Matt O’Hara has received a 2013-14 fellowship of $45,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to write and additionally research his upcoming book titled “The History of the Future in Mexico.”
30 August 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Mediterranean Seminar UCMRP Fall Workshop and Conference will be held in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California Berkeley on Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2013.
29 August 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC was recognized as one of the top 20 "Best Colleges for English and Humanities Majors," according to analysis by Affordable Colleges Online.
20 August 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz's first free course offered on the online Coursera platform has drawn more 18,000 participants, exceeding expectations by instructors of the 10-week literature and history class on the Holocaust.
31 July 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Last year, descendents of England’s greatest novelist Charles Dickens descended on London as part of the yearlong international celebration of the famed author’s 200th birthday. This year, two prominent members of the Dickens family will come to Santa Cruz for another event honoring Mr. Dickens.
UC Santa Cruz has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support humanities projects in the Literature Department. The campus awards are part of $33 million in grants for 173 humanities projects that the NEH has funded this year.
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24 July 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz is searching for two positions during 2013-14 in the area of Mediterranean Studies, one in Ancient Comparative and one in Medieval/Early Modern, [...]
15 July 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz announced today the launch of its first free online course open to the public through the Coursera platform. Titled The Holocaust, the course traces the destruction of the Jews and Jewish life in Europe by Nazi Germany, drawing on major works of history, literature, and film.
8 July 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Welcome to the UC Humanities Update, a fortnightly e-news blast designed to bring you the latest news and information about humanities across the UC system, from opportunities for funding and networking […]
American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently released a report on the humanities and social sciences. It's a great read and you can find it here: http://www.humanitiescommission.org
News Profiles
8 July 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Digital Princess Residential Research Group (RRG) will enable Deanna Shemek and her two co-PIs, both leading international scholars and key contributors to the project, along with a small group of international scholars, to begin collaborating on next phase of the project [...]
5 July 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Beginning this fall, students at UC Santa Cruz can now declare a major in Spanish Studies, leading to a new bachelor of arts degree. Administered by UCSC’s Language Program in […]
12 June 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Kristoffer Hellén traveled to Europe and Russia, seeking answers to a difficult question: how did two small and vulnerable ethnic groups resist assimilation, hold onto their cultures, and survive? Hellén […]
31 May 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Linguistics professor Donka Farkas was presented with the 2013 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities yesterday at the Humanities Division’s Spring Awards Celebration. Established in 2002 to honor outstanding teaching by humanities faculty, the award is named in honor of one of UCSC’s founding faculty members. [...]
22 May 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The course will approach literature and literary devices in their capacity to address the patient’s experience of illness, medical education and practice, and medical ethics and to understand and assess how considerations of justice impact these themes in medicine. [...]
17 May 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
An educational forum on academic free speech is scheduled for Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. at the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room on the UC Santa Cruz campus. […]